I’m sure everyone has made cornbread from the Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix. But you know what? That’s just cheating. I decided to make some homemade cornbread and it was delicious. My husband GiR prefers his cornbread with real corn kernels, but these were still good.

Modifications
I used a 9×9 square pan instead of a bundt pan. Instead of the struesel topping listed, I used the struesel from Dorie’s Allspice Crumb Muffins (pg. 16). Although instead of allspice, I used cinnamon.

My friend NL sent me a recipe for these chocolate muffins and I just had to try them out. I felt like a little bit of a cheater because it uses a devil’s food cake mix, but the results are just soooo good.

Big Bad Chocolate Muffins

Recipe
Private recipe of NL’s

Modifications
None

Rating
Delicious and chocolately. Especially gooey when warm. 4.5 stars out of 5.

I came across the Daring Bakers sometime in May and made my first recipe (the apple danish bread) in June. I found it a little odd that we had to sign up for a website and keep things a secret until reveal day. But, whatever. It was still fun.

But now, it just retarded.

There are way too many rules for just a fun baking/blog group. I don’t understand why it has to be so regulated. Someone will be going around to make sure you follow the rules or else you get kicked out of the group? I call bullshit.

Modifications
I split the dough in half. One half had 1/2 cup pecans and the other half had 1/2 cup extra chocolate chips. My relatives didn’t have any pumpkin pie spice (or any nutmeg), so I used 2 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp allspice, 1/8 tsp cloves, and 1/8 tsp ginger.

Rating
Too much chocolate; you couldn’t taste the pumpkin at all. Too gooey. 3 1/2 stars out of 5.